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They've ignored most of the opportunities to harvest rainwater a la Brad Lancaster/Tucson AZ is doing... There is still a lot of problematic concrete glare and impermeability that needs to be addressed. LA planning is more about control than good practices. Love a before and after video. Rewatched several times already. Thank you for removing the obvious links (and thinly-veiled ones, too).
It's funny that devastating floods in the 30's created the post apocalypitical iconic cement hell that is the LA "river". A river is such a beautiful soothing healing thing for a city to have and to encase it so in cement is a crime against nature and humanity. I am glad that change has been coming since the 80's. Now with devastating droughts of the 2020s and loss of salmon habitat the awareness of the power of swaling the river to absorb to groundwater and grow plants to cleanse the water, create parks that heal the soul of humans and animal life, river saving makes even more sense. Power to the river savers. Power to cement removals.
They could employ rainwater harvesting techniques to keep down irrigation costs and bioswales. They could plant native food trees in the bioswales and add that to school lessons.
I'm so with you on that. Most LAUSD school playgrounds look like big, paved parking lots. Always wondered why they didn't convert them into mini parks with sportng fields, grasses and trees. Would surely benefit the kids and the entire communities.
@Ash2theB Look up Brad Lancaster and all you can do in urban and rural landscapes. LA is still thinking way too small. They can do improvements that help homeowners rather than just taking money to aggrandize themselves
Woah stop being so woke. That wokeness will be the downfall of America. We don't need to reform anything, the west has been doing an exceptional job conserving water! #stopwokeness
In San Antonio Texas we do this, not only with the river walk but the creek ways here have been turned into parks and it benefits the residents greatly ! I’m glad to see LA doing something to help the environment and people
Yeah, but you don't know LA. This will be used for violence. The parks are going to be claimed by the locals gangs. Homeless will move and and there will be nothing the cops can do.
I wish we could do that too. I live near a creek called Coyote Creek. It serves as the border between LA and Orange Counties, and is the largest tributary of the San Gabriel River, which itself is also encased in concrete. The Coyote Creek is completely encased in concrete, but the thing is there are bike lanes on both sides, meaning that you can bike up to the hills where the creek originated if you want, or head south to the beach. I really, REALLY hope to see Coyote Creek be returned to nature too. I cross it at least once a week, and on clear days, you can see Mt. Baldy perfectly. It’s such a beautiful sight to drive over the bridge in say December and see the backdrop Mt. Baldy covered in snow behind the concrete creek. When it rains, all our rain water is funneled through these creeks and becomes a muddy mess floating with plastic that makes its way to the ocean. If it was replanted, these native trees and plants could absorb the water, cool the surrounding environment, and even naturally replenish our underground aquifers. You get my point, we need to restore our rivers.
@@intreoo Read about how Brad Lancaster changed his property, then his neighborhood, then his city of Tucson, Arizona. He not only included rainwater harvesting, he added trees, and shrubs that produce native, local produce. He's lowered watering costs for many, as well as reduced heat island effect, decreased food scarcity, added beauty, walkabout and reduced crime even. It reduces downstream flooding, too. The way he did it is very low cost to implement.
Glad they are using natural based solutions. The concrete aquifers are for sure severely reducing groundwater recharge. Over long periods of time I suspect the concrete aqueducts are also increasing drought because larger areas are becoming drier due to less recharge. When you increase plants you increase transpiration, which increases cloud formation and cools the climate, which brings more rain.
I wish more people understood how transpiration of plants moderates temperature and causes more rain downwind, up in the hills. Keep telling it every chance you get Joe. I will too.
YES. Absolutely well said. Makes me angry when I see trees been destroyed for no reason at all. They cheat oxygen plus shelter for birds. Long time ago. The city workers were chopping trees there was hawk trying desperately to guard its chicks the HEARTLESS men kept cutting the tree. So Heart breaking. the creature did show more compassion than "humans"??
I hope this project comes to full fruition. It’s what LA deserves, especially the wildlife. I was born and raised in LA county and seeing projects like this finally happen makes me happy. I’m moving out of California this year for the first time and it makes me sad that I won’t be here to see it but I’m incredibly happy for LA and the people in it.
I grew up in L.A., and every time I go back, I get the impression that the city planners' highest priority is maximizing hazards and inconvenience to everyone who gets around without a car [1]. So, while I wish this project every success, I'm very surprised by it. ____ [1] I forget who said that a hallmark of a first-class modern city is that its residents don't need to own cars, but he or she was right. Obviously, by this standard, the 2nd-largest city in America falls extremely short.
As far as I understand, the L.A. river restoration is the costliest, and most complex river restoration project in U.S. history, even though current plans don't call for restoring the whole river. Still, L.A. has a really unique geography. It's the only major U.S. city bisected by a mountain range, it has beaches, wetlands, and mountains that get winter snow, and a river that runs through the middle. Hopefully this is the beginning of L.A. and other American cities giving a greater appreciation to the nature in their backyards.
You might want to look at pictures of LA from 100 plus years.ago.... The overwhelming of people live on flat desert land...... LA will fail soon enough and return to a desert wasteland for the most part.... There was an 10 or so year period in the 1880 time range were LA and Southern California as a whole was in a very heavy rain period and it caused many to think it would be a great crop area..... That type of rain hasn't been seen since....
We would need to undam areas and give up farm land and water resource for city's to restore the watershed. Over 100 years of neglect and damage cant be undone fast or easy.
They need to do a lot more. They need to adopt practices that Brad Lancaster did in Tucson AZ. The regreening also cools the heat island effect. LA still has a glaring amount of impermeable concrete, as do the canals. Love looking at all that new green space in contrast to CONCRETE...
It'll happen. But it will take a long time. We need to come to grips with that. The problem with LA being a mostly democratically run city is that this will happen SLOWLY. Over the course of decades. Not as quickly as any of us would like. I suppose the bright side to look upon is that this is happening at all. California is not historically known for its "smart ecological decision-making." So this video is one of the rare examples of actual improvement.
@@jacob4920 It may happen quickly but they will build in failures so they are again perceived as 'needed' to rescue with huge, poorly executed expenditures.
I live next to a bike path that runs parallel to a 7-mile river, and I must say that I enjoy riding my bike there daily. It has improved my life and general quality of life compared to the concrete LA suburb I lived in. I've lost weight, and my heart health is much better than it used to be.
Where, really where. THe bike path in the area near Glendale is filled with Homeless tents. I see one bicyclist a year in that area. Maybe there is a clear patch in Frogtown.
You won't get the ecosystem to regenerate itself until the water treatment plant in Balboa park passes colder water. I grew up in the 70's to 80's, exploring the LA river, from age 8 to maybe 15, I spent half my summers down there. I caught so many, different kinds of fish, frogs, crayfish, dragonflies, you name it. There were schools of hundreds of Koi, catfish, bullfrogs 15-18 inches long. Every year they managed to survive the floods and bounce right back to crazy numbers. The whole ecosystem worked just fine. One day (I only remember it was summer and a hot week.) I went down there and there was a whitish, very oily, paint-like substance floating down the river and sticking everywhere. It could have been malathion or sevin, it had that smell, but there was so much of it and didn't make the water milky. The next day, everything was dead and had washed to the shallows. Their bodies piled up all day and because there were no scavengers to clean it up, the next day it stunk so bad I couldn't go down. I went upstream and followed the dead fish and what was left of the white stuff to the recently made bird watching pond that got all of its water from the new water reclamation plant. The plant seems to add about 1/3 to 1/2 to the water volume crossing thru the dam and into the concreted stretch. After the die off, I noticed the water was much warmer and shallower by at least an inch (it used to get to about 10 inches deep in some spots). I went down and the only things that have returned to the concreted river are the smaller fish like minnows, crayfish, snails and schistosomes, and pink eye occasionally. There are a lot of turtles in the natural portion in Balboa park. Warmer water holds less oxygen and causes things to live at the upper end of their temperature comfort level, that causes stress and less vigorous animal life. Allows invasive species an opportunity to get settled. Beyond that, the river doesn't stand a chance with all the gutter water carrying every pollutant and particulate found in LA's air and ground into the river water. Oh, I would not eat the fish. There are big carp, catfish and bass, just catch and release.
They could do more on a house by house, street by street basis. Bioswales are important filters. Could offset the food deserts in many larger cities, too.
@@b_uppy It is true that we can always conserve more, but we also need to capture our rainwater before it goes out to sea, and recycle waste water into drinkable water. Food deserts on the other hand are a socio-economic problem. If a grocery store chooses not to operate there, it is their prerogative, and informed by their profit margins being constantly in the negative, due to high crime, violence against employees, and rampant shoplifting.
@alelx jines nope. Reduction in population equals recessions and more pollution. Pulling societies to first world status would reduce the most pollution. You’ve been lied to.
Geting the most out of those carbon offset credits? Now if all the lawns would go back to natural gardens. And if they close all the golf courses. Well and Nestle bottle water plants...
@@LeafofLifeWorld Add some trees for cooling and carbon sequestration. Win-win. Golfers will go golfing in the morning to avoid heat, which is what I think you meant. What is more criminal are the remodeling and home building shows that never promote sound ecological practices. THAT is a travesty...
@@LeafofLifeWorld the company I work for is developing sustainable golf courses adapted to help fight the climate crisis while also still giving us golfers our slice of heaven
Lately, all the news is bad, everything is going to hell, we are all going to starve, etc etc etc. Then I find your channel today, and it's like I crossed into a parallel reality where people are actually doing things to help us all out.
Since California loves to spend Tax Dollars wilynily....I'd really appreciate it if the State created a Department of Permaculture and actually let them do their job. It will save California.
Yes, California definitely needs another government department with a huge budget and no accountability for results. Too little government is definitely the problem.
It looks as if they're planting inside the concrete trench. No mention of an aquifer beneath the city - to filter and re pump the water out of. Yes, I know what trees do - and it's great to clean out the garbage and re-establish biodiversity, but there was no mention of pumping or saving any of the water that normally runs out to the sea. 🤔
It always makes me laugh when governments try and control the weather by constantly harping the global warming/carbon emissions narrative when they can’t even clean up and restore less than 60 miles of creek (river). Change starts small and in your own home first before you want to control the weather around the world. My hats off to the hard working people who clean up this stretch of river and strive to give it its life back.
A much needed good news story, and such an impressive community initiative. Love what people can achieve when they’re truly passionate about something so important!
The army engineering corp is definitely the hero of it. Redirecting water out of the river and cleaning it maybe but building in it?? Theres a reason why that river is so big.
That’s beautiful. I live in Houston and yeeeeears back we voted to put monies into Buffalo Bayou and it’s now a gem. Any pic you see of our skyline usually has that beautiful park where it’s a skate park, lots of concerts, etc on top of flood help. I think LA would benefit.
I am so happy to see this! I grew up in LA in the 50's, before the creek (I wouldn't call it a river) was cemented over. Used to run around in it with my buds and enjoyed the trees and brush and grasses. Played a lot of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn down there... between Bell and Bell Gardens. Simpler times for sure.
@@miguelvillanueva6542 What the people are doing with the river north of LA is what needs to be done with all of it. It was cemented to reduce the mess/danger created when it flooded. I once was able to dip my hand into the river, over the stub wall on the levee, between Gage Ave and Florence Ave.
Its great to see local people making a change, governments should do something but in the meantime its great to see the people taking it upon themselves too! It shows they really want it to happen
@@LeafofLifeWorld In a lot of cases the government gets in the way of people with initiative just taking care of things that need to be taken care of. Sure, keep an eye on things because not everyone's ideas are good ideas, but if someone takes it upon themselves to clean, repair, beautify their community, let them and show a little appreciation for their effort.
The Muddy River in Boston is an example of this plan (the fens.) First designed by Olmsted in 1880s as fake natural river and flood plain park, part was filled in and put in culverts in 50s, this caused flooding and closing of the D extension of the green line subway every storm. It was dug back up and a large river section an park created, restoring original design. Currently dredging downstream, removal of much of the 18' tall invasive phragmites. So this rewilding in Boston too, but the original idea and first time tried out was 130 years ago, great and happy being done... But it was innovative in 1890s, wish had been recognized and done everywhere for the last hundred years.
Good to see LA do this. The San Diego River in San Diego is also being restored but it was never made into a concrete channel like this so it is less work. Urban rivers are vital to the local ecosystem.
Imagine if they renew their city masterplan for an ecologic print, where they demolish various roads to create canals and green areas all around the metropolitan area of LA
The rain runoff could be used to fill groundwater recharge ponds or even lakes that might dry up over summer. That way, much more of the runoff could be 'channeled' into aquifers and groundwater.
@@thegiggler2 When many gardens have it, then it is large scale. Brad does rainwater harvestin on small and large scales. The impacts last for years, too. During the 1930s in the Sonoran Desert the CCC made swales that are fully functional green oases that have also affected the water around them...
What was the thought process to pave the river? After diverting water from desert rivers, deciding it was a drought cause there was never enough, then making the river sealed so the water goes straight out and none of it recharges the aquifer?
In the 19th and early 20th century the L.A. river was prone to flooding, causing significant economic damage. In the 1930s the Army Corps of Engineers paved the river to prevent future floodings. This was the one and only goal. Although I'd like to see the restoration of the river, to the credit of the Army Corps, their flood control system has worked for some 80 years.
@@orion7763 We've had flooding well into the late 20th century and we'll have it again. Nothing has really changed. We are in a natural drought state, with intermittent bursts of flooding in some years.
Also, real estate developers hate the idea of public spaces they can't sell. Recharging the aquifer on a large scale would require a lot more area for soak back basins. These could have been parks but then nobody would have made money selling houses there.
The amount of people i hear screaming about this stuff, they suggest that the reason for lake mead drying up is somehow this and that "if they just stopped trying to protect the fish the lakes would fill up and california would become successful again"
I went to elementary school in LA. Our "playground" was an asphalt slab the size of a parking lot. It was miserable, and all I would ever want to do is sneak away from our assigned "play areas", to go be in the shade of the trees at the edge of the playground. At one point they decided they would put in new classrooms using mobiles, but the decided to cut down several trees to do it. One of them was the largest of the trees on the grounds, and my friend and I encouraged other kids to not go back to class after recess and instead we sat in a circle around the tree with our arms linked. Eventually someone came looking for us, and one by one they had to physically drag us off the tree, a bunch of bawling 7-9 year olds, begging them not to cut down "Mother Tree". I didn't know then that was my first protest and the poor management of the natural resources at my school had radicalized me. It's never stopped seeming like the right thing to do, and I've always wished we knew how to accomplish our objective and saved those trees. Our whole Earth is in crisis, and until we collectively start to prioritize the right things, we're just going to keep accelerating off this cliff.
It is good to see restoration projects that clean up trash. Be sure you do not plant too much vegitation that could reduce the ability of the system to pass flood flows. I have seen floods into residential areas because creeks were allowed to become clogged by trees.
Wish i could give more than one thumbs up... Great project, more over in such an urbanized area. I hope it helps people feel good. City life can be depressing.
It makes sense that in the 1930s they thought channeling water to the ocean to save flooding would work. but now we know better, we need to obsorb and control water where it lands. Although the situation is dire, there is hope. it is not like we have done a lot of work and results are the same. There is a lot of hope for LA to turn into a city that respects in natural environment and conserves water.
Why do so many people not know what a drought is? I'm a 60 year old native Southern Californian and there hasn't been a single real drought in my entire life. Using a word wrongly doesn't make a statement true, it's just a word used wrongly.
@@cjthompson420 According to those "statistics and meteorologists", not to mention the politicians, California is ALWAYS in drought. By definition that's not a drought. If you have rain, by definition it's not a drought. I refer you back to the first sentence of my original post.
This is sooo awesome ! I hope all city’s start looking into ways to get mor water into the ground instead of wasted out to sea ! It’s amazing to see the before and after photos ! BRAVO
I’m a crybaby, so I sobbed in happiness and hope when I saw my beloved L. A. river and all the great restoration work still going on. The shade of trees reduces heat in the area by degrees. The trees also fan the breezes and winds to add to that cooling effect. I would love to see more restoration projects.
Its baffling how much they destroyed in there state. Use thirsty cement it reduces flooding and increase groundwater and it is made just like normal cement but missing the sand. Also how haven't they figured out tell now trees help water stay longer and evaporate less.
Where will you race your cars, if you remove this track? [Gumball Rally, Grease] Seriously, good effort. All I am reading about recently is the lowering head of water in Lakes Powell and Mead so anything that can save water is great.
Incredible project. It'll make a huge difference. If they can capture more of the stormwater for use in drinking and agriculture, we'll be laughing too 😁
@@LeafofLifeWorld for sure, and not just in LA of course. If it runs in to the oceans and isn't at least partly used on its way there, you know you have a problem :D
Bro LA is so massive but there is so much pollution there from all the cars and stuff that it prevents snow from forming in winter on mountain . I live in Phoenix and we went to LA last weekend it so so funn and LA is so beautiful !! We saw the LA river by the Los Angeles zoo by Griffith park it was so beautiful but I knew they can make it more natural water way like it was 1000 years ago
Hi...as a kid I grew up close to the San Gabriel River Bed....noticed I said river bed? There was nary a river running except El Nino years... nonetheless I spent countless hours down there... I knew every place that river held water...life just thrived around those small ponds . Fish frogs lizards and snakes all in my little wilderness in the river bed...we vacationed twice a year in northern California always spied on the little patches of green that the LA River still held on to... always a kid fishing in them. what a treat! When I started the Terrazzo trade there was a Terrazzo shop near Dodger stadium and I talked with guys that remembered the Steelhead runs that stopped in the late 50's... Steelhead in the Los Angeles River...I'd close my eyes and imagine how the river used to be... The San Gabriel was natural north of me all the way to Duarte no concrete... the concrete started just west of I-5 about 3 miles from Telegraph Rd... Between those two spot was a concrete retaining wall on the low side held water all year long.... anyway... That's all been taken away...it's great to see Los Angeles embrace the potential it really has.... Bring em back....wild Rainbows swimming up past downtown! Oh the joys! Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school CA
Class of 69, Norwalk High and we called the San Gabriel river the Bamboo Jungle by Alondra Blvd. because of how much grew down there. Where Cerritos College is now was an Artesian stream and spring we'd catch frogs and madtom catfish. Used to take our bikes to Seal Beach when I was 10.
@@MountainFisher Right on! Thanks so much for sharing! That's awesome....we had a bamboo jungle to...north of Telegraph Rd in Pico Rivera and Whittier Narrows....they really we're like little jungles the bamboo would grow high and thick and people cut paths into them ....a little spooky sometimes...✌️
@@MountainFisher right by Florence Ave and I-5 Japanese farmers had a couple acres of strawberries... honest to God some we're as big as a fist! Two or three would fuse together on the vine... remember Cerritos along the 91 was lots of Dairies and farmland! ✌️
@@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 Used to be called Dairy Valley, now is Cerritos or Artesia. I remember the last Japanese strawberry farm on Beach Blvd down south of Knotts Berry Farm. Two acres of farmland right on Beach Blvd. Hwy 39.
@@MountainFisher Wow! I remember that strawberry farm too! We had relatives in Anaheim ...Pop was born in Anaheim in 1918... In the mid 1980s I was working on South St in Cerritos... remember Ethan Allen Furniture? I worked right next door at The Antique Guild. When my Pop would drive me to work we'd exit off the 605 onto South St every now and then there would be a Golden Eagle sitting on a traffic cone down there in the grass ... between the off ramp and the freeway! Yeah! You take care out there...good luck fishing... I live less than a mile from The Feather River Fish Hatchery.. big Steelhead in the 70s... Used to spend my Summers in the house I'm in now...Dad bought it from my Aunt when he retired...Printed GTE Yellow Pages for the LA times Telephone Directory plant 37 years in Boyle heights... I-5 was at the end of my block easy commute....wish we never sold that house!✌️
they should do more stuff like this! not only would it be better for the environment at a time when we really need more than ever to get serious about the climate, but it will also be good for people as well.
All houses and buildings should have rain collecting systems, in order to store water in underground cisterns under houses patios or garages, on this way the demand from public water systems will reduce and the monthly bills 💸 and the floods less aggressive
Bioswales can pull water from streets. They can reduce the need for watering and are a lot cheaper to install. Read up on Brad Lancaster and what he did for Tucson, elsewhere. Brad started in his back yard first. He did curb cuts, planted mostly native species, harvests greywater, uses cisterns, etc. When neighbors noticed how well it was working they wanted to know how to do it as well. He launched into helped them. After a few years of working out the bugs he went to the city (along with neighbors calling in) and told them of the benefits. The engineers balked, so he asked about their objections. He won them over. Tucson now legally allows curb cuts, and actively encourages it. They help pay for cisterns, and they have programs to plant native food plants. . If the cisterns are forced to be underground they'll require pumps, digging, etc. This is a lot of expense in an area that is already expensive. Curb cuts, etc can help hydrate parched land, reduce costs, regreen places where they have difficulty affording city water. etc. It filters street water and reduces pollution. It reduces heat islands, pavement degradation, crime, beautifies and adds food security.
8 States? NO, you mean 8 COUNTIES where the watershed is pulled from. The only states where water is pulled is from Nevada/Arizona through the Colorado River and within California itself.
I worked for the Army Corps of engineers taking care of the LA River removing debree and trash to make the river be as beautiful and full of life. Alot of homeless and graffiti destroying this eco system. Best job I ever had worked in the hot sun but it was a good feeling k owing I did something for my City.
I am really into this subject and wanted to watch the entire video but the VOICE...whether it is computerized or just someone bereft of any emotion with a completely flat affect...is absolutely killing me. I feel I'm stuck in the tube and London is experiencing the apocalypse. "The Underground is the only safe space, mind the gap, thank you and try not to die."
I’m in complete shock they haven’t been storing rainwater forever…. You know where you live, had a drought and you just kept running the rainwater back to the ocean…glad to see changes happening for you all
I remember the visits to LA and the storm water systems in place. My thoughts at the time were clear, I thought they looked horrible, massive concrete drains are certainly not a nice look and happy to hear there is some restoration work in progress on the river.
If ANYONE is serious about the effects of climate change, they would promote 3 solutions to adapt and reduce CO2. 1) water security to reduce the impacts of droughts. The higher on the contour water is stored the more efficiently it can be used. 2) flood mitigation. Part of the solution is also to store water high on the contour. With plenty of "air space" to catch high short term run-off. And release it over an extended time to not overwhelm drainage systems. etc. 3) nuclear power to replace fossil fuel power stations. Modular nuclear reactors could be built alongside existing power stations nearing decommissioning. Part of the exorbitant cost of nuclear power is over the top safety precautions. No other forms of power generation comes near to nuclear poweres minimal toxic by products and tiny carbon footprint.
Yes we need to restore the river and also capture water during storms and pump it into the ground to replenish groundwater. The river also provides green spaces for people and animals and naturally provides cooler air flow to the surrounding neighborhoods.
As a retired Landscape Architect, I have seen first hand how nature can recover from over urbanization if given a little help from us. Defining problems and discovering solutions is first step. Then, with everyone on same page, it's time for volunteers to get their hands dirty. Corporate sponsor can be a big help. Some will donate money, others equipment with operators. Reclaiming an old watershed is a long term project. Storm water needs to be stored and not allowed to be wasted in ocean. New natural lakes can be created for water storage. This can also help recharge the aquifer. Birds and wildlife will return if natural habitats are created for them. All of this helps nature recover from a century of neglect. A portion of LA river can be moved underground for flood control and directed to ocean. Area where concrete once was can be greened up into parks and open natural areas.
One of the saddest thing I’ve heard is how big people that live in LA could care less about the environment and only care about making more housing projects on beautiful parks and wild areas that really do not need more people. That’s correct LA is destroying already 300 year old public park tree’s and areas for really nasty tall apartments. We can’t have more people there. If anything those big investors should be building those things in their own backyards.. such giant jerks in our world right now.
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They've ignored most of the opportunities to harvest rainwater a la Brad Lancaster/Tucson AZ is doing...
There is still a lot of problematic concrete glare and impermeability that needs to be addressed. LA planning is more about control than good practices.
Love a before and after video. Rewatched several times already.
Thank you for removing the obvious links (and thinly-veiled ones, too).
Hell.yeah keep restoring nature
Nature is wise, we need to support her, instead of interfering with her.
It's funny that devastating floods in the 30's created the post apocalypitical iconic cement hell that is the LA "river". A river is such a beautiful soothing healing thing for a city to have and to encase it so in cement is a crime against nature and humanity. I am glad that change has been coming since the 80's. Now with devastating droughts of the 2020s and loss of salmon habitat the awareness of the power of swaling the river to absorb to groundwater and grow plants to cleanse the water, create parks that heal the soul of humans and animal life, river saving makes even more sense. Power to the river savers. Power to cement removals.
Every river and every yard in every city, town or hamlet on our rock
LA can also remove massive amounts of concrete from school grounds. They can also plant trees lining sidewalks.
They could employ rainwater harvesting techniques to keep down irrigation costs and bioswales. They could plant native food trees in the bioswales and add that to school lessons.
I'm so with you on that. Most LAUSD school playgrounds look like big, paved parking lots. Always wondered why they didn't convert them into mini parks with sportng fields, grasses and trees. Would surely benefit the kids and the entire communities.
@@b_uppy they actually have installed Rain Catching devices on the LA river. And there multiple projects thru out the city.
@Ash2theB
Look up Brad Lancaster and all you can do in urban and rural landscapes. LA is still thinking way too small. They can do improvements that help homeowners rather than just taking money to aggrandize themselves
Woah stop being so woke. That wokeness will be the downfall of America. We don't need to reform anything, the west has been doing an exceptional job conserving water!
#stopwokeness
In San Antonio Texas we do this, not only with the river walk but the creek ways here have been turned into parks and it benefits the residents greatly ! I’m glad to see LA doing something to help the environment and people
Yeah, but you don't know LA. This will be used for violence. The parks are going to be claimed by the locals gangs. Homeless will move and and there will be nothing the cops can do.
I wish we could do that too. I live near a creek called Coyote Creek. It serves as the border between LA and Orange Counties, and is the largest tributary of the San Gabriel River, which itself is also encased in concrete. The Coyote Creek is completely encased in concrete, but the thing is there are bike lanes on both sides, meaning that you can bike up to the hills where the creek originated if you want, or head south to the beach. I really, REALLY hope to see Coyote Creek be returned to nature too. I cross it at least once a week, and on clear days, you can see Mt. Baldy perfectly. It’s such a beautiful sight to drive over the bridge
in say December and see the backdrop Mt. Baldy covered in snow behind the concrete creek. When it rains, all our rain water is funneled through these creeks and becomes a muddy mess floating with plastic that makes its way to the ocean. If it was replanted, these native trees and plants could absorb the water, cool the surrounding environment, and even naturally replenish our underground aquifers. You get my point, we need to restore our rivers.
@@intreoo
Read about how Brad Lancaster changed his property, then his neighborhood, then his city of Tucson, Arizona.
He not only included rainwater harvesting, he added trees, and shrubs that produce native, local produce.
He's lowered watering costs for many, as well as reduced heat island effect, decreased food scarcity, added beauty, walkabout and reduced crime even. It reduces downstream flooding, too.
The way he did it is very low cost to implement.
Great work 👏
Hey Texan. Houstonian. Yes I’m glad we voters approved the Buffalo bayou revamp long ago it’s my favorite park now. The LA river looks so sad 😭
Glad they are using natural based solutions. The concrete aquifers are for sure severely reducing groundwater recharge. Over long periods of time I suspect the concrete aqueducts are also increasing drought because larger areas are becoming drier due to less recharge. When you increase plants you increase transpiration, which increases cloud formation and cools the climate, which brings more rain.
Exactly 💯
I wish more people understood how transpiration of plants moderates temperature and causes more rain downwind, up in the hills. Keep telling it every chance you get Joe. I will too.
Exactly. It doesn’t seem like many people understand that though.
It’s all about cars, cows and renewables so far.
@@laserflexr6321 keep it up Laser, inspiring message!
YES. Absolutely well said. Makes me angry when I see trees been destroyed for no reason at all.
They cheat oxygen plus shelter for birds. Long time ago. The city workers were chopping trees there was hawk trying desperately to guard its chicks the HEARTLESS men kept cutting the tree. So Heart breaking. the creature did show more compassion than "humans"??
I hope this project comes to full fruition. It’s what LA deserves, especially the wildlife. I was born and raised in LA county and seeing projects like this finally happen makes me happy. I’m moving out of California this year for the first time and it makes me sad that I won’t be here to see it but I’m incredibly happy for LA and the people in it.
@John Jones fine, I’ll stay for you
@@cesaalva Yes. there will be even more flash flooding. But. hay at least it will look nice.
I grew up in L.A., and every time I go back, I get the impression that the city planners' highest priority is maximizing hazards and inconvenience to everyone who gets around without a car [1].
So, while I wish this project every success, I'm very surprised by it.
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[1] I forget who said that a hallmark of a first-class modern city is that its residents don't need to own cars, but he or she was right. Obviously, by this standard, the 2nd-largest city in America falls extremely short.
As far as I understand, the L.A. river restoration is the costliest, and most complex river restoration project in U.S. history, even though current plans don't call for restoring the whole river. Still, L.A. has a really unique geography. It's the only major U.S. city bisected by a mountain range, it has beaches, wetlands, and mountains that get winter snow, and a river that runs through the middle. Hopefully this is the beginning of L.A. and other American cities giving a greater appreciation to the nature in their backyards.
Rare location;where you could visit the desert,mountains and beach in the same day!!!!!!!!!!.
You might want to look at pictures of LA from 100 plus years.ago....
The overwhelming of people live on flat desert land......
LA will fail soon enough and return to a desert wasteland for the most part....
There was an 10 or so year period in the 1880 time range were LA and Southern California as a whole was in a very heavy rain period and it caused many to think it would be a great crop area.....
That type of rain hasn't been seen since....
We would need to undam areas and give up farm land and water resource for city's to restore the watershed. Over 100 years of neglect and damage cant be undone fast or easy.
@@holokai21 I've done it! Same day! In my girlfriend's 77 beetle!
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school CA
@@robertking3090 must be done thoughtfully...with drought in mind...some dams will be essential...
They need to do a lot more. They need to adopt practices that Brad Lancaster did in Tucson AZ.
The regreening also cools the heat island effect.
LA still has a glaring amount of impermeable concrete, as do the canals.
Love looking at all that new green space in contrast to CONCRETE...
Bioswales for the city :)
@@LeafofLifeWorld
And And all the benefits they bring! Give me those curb cuts, too!
It'll happen. But it will take a long time. We need to come to grips with that. The problem with LA being a mostly democratically run city is that this will happen SLOWLY. Over the course of decades. Not as quickly as any of us would like. I suppose the bright side to look upon is that this is happening at all. California is not historically known for its "smart ecological decision-making." So this video is one of the rare examples of actual improvement.
@@jacob4920
It may happen quickly but they will build in failures so they are again perceived as 'needed' to rescue with huge, poorly executed expenditures.
I just saw the Brad Lancaster because of your comment. Well worth my time. Thank you!
I live next to a bike path that runs parallel to a 7-mile river, and I must say that I enjoy riding my bike there daily. It has improved my life and general quality of life compared to the concrete LA suburb I lived in. I've lost weight, and my heart health is much better than it used to be.
Where, really where. THe bike path in the area near Glendale is filled with Homeless tents. I see one bicyclist a year in that area. Maybe there is a clear patch in Frogtown.
You won't get the ecosystem to regenerate itself until the water treatment plant in Balboa park passes colder water. I grew up in the 70's to 80's, exploring the LA river, from age 8 to maybe 15, I spent half my summers down there. I caught so many, different kinds of fish, frogs, crayfish, dragonflies, you name it. There were schools of hundreds of Koi, catfish, bullfrogs 15-18 inches long. Every year they managed to survive the floods and bounce right back to crazy numbers. The whole ecosystem worked just fine.
One day (I only remember it was summer and a hot week.) I went down there and there was a whitish, very oily, paint-like substance floating down the river and sticking everywhere. It could have been malathion or sevin, it had that smell, but there was so much of it and didn't make the water milky. The next day, everything was dead and had washed to the shallows. Their bodies piled up all day and because there were no scavengers to clean it up, the next day it stunk so bad I couldn't go down.
I went upstream and followed the dead fish and what was left of the white stuff to the recently made bird watching pond that got all of its water from the new water reclamation plant. The plant seems to add about 1/3 to 1/2 to the water volume crossing thru the dam and into the concreted stretch. After the die off, I noticed the water was much warmer and shallower by at least an inch (it used to get to about 10 inches deep in some spots). I went down and the only things that have returned to the concreted river are the smaller fish like minnows, crayfish, snails and schistosomes, and pink eye occasionally. There are a lot of turtles in the natural portion in Balboa park. Warmer water holds less oxygen and causes things to live at the upper end of their temperature comfort level, that causes stress and less vigorous animal life. Allows invasive species an opportunity to get settled.
Beyond that, the river doesn't stand a chance with all the gutter water carrying every pollutant and particulate found in LA's air and ground into the river water. Oh, I would not eat the fish. There are big carp, catfish and bass, just catch and release.
really, you see Schistosomes. It's a parasitic worm, and it's suppose to be microscopic.
They need to capture more rain water.
They could do more on a house by house, street by street basis. Bioswales are important filters. Could offset the food deserts in many larger cities, too.
@@b_uppy It is true that we can always conserve more, but we also need to capture our rainwater before it goes out to sea, and recycle waste water into drinkable water. Food deserts on the other hand are a socio-economic problem. If a grocery store chooses not to operate there, it is their prerogative, and informed by their profit margins being constantly in the negative, due to high crime, violence against employees, and rampant shoplifting.
Isn’t that illegal?
@@Mike-gz4xn in some places. But it shouldn’t be.
@alelx jines nope. Reduction in population equals recessions and more pollution. Pulling societies to first world status would reduce the most pollution. You’ve been lied to.
People were always so quick to concrete everything. I'm glad that now everyone is trying to go green again.
Geting the most out of those carbon offset credits? Now if all the lawns would go back to natural gardens. And if they close all the golf courses. Well and Nestle bottle water plants...
Have you seen videos about Brad Lancaster?
Golf courses could stay but most yards the lawns are decorative. Nestle could be ousted. Who's Well?
Who is still going golfing in drought, they need to be given a climate criminal badge
@@LeafofLifeWorld
Add some trees for cooling and carbon sequestration. Win-win. Golfers will go golfing in the morning to avoid heat, which is what I think you meant.
What is more criminal are the remodeling and home building shows that never promote sound ecological practices. THAT is a travesty...
@@LeafofLifeWorld
And add bioswales to those golf courses!
@@LeafofLifeWorld the company I work for is developing sustainable golf courses adapted to help fight the climate crisis while also still giving us golfers our slice of heaven
So happy that this is happening, will make Californias largest city more what it should be. A livable space with less human over thinking.
In their case overthinking equals over-kill...
lol. This "river" is now lined with homeless camps
How long before it is a sewer?
The whole city has become a sewar
Need to do that all over California
Most places west of the Mississippi could do this.
Great idea. Love the changes they've already made and look forward to seeing more. Well done to them.
According to Jimmy Carter 1979,
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Lately, all the news is bad, everything is going to hell, we are all going to starve, etc etc etc. Then I find your channel today, and it's like I crossed into a parallel reality where people are actually doing things to help us all out.
True
That’s why I followed
It won't work. It'll be trashed inside 12 months. Sorry to dampen the mood, but we are talking about LA politicians.
This is itsy bitsy spider level stuff. What if it rains. 😑
Why let the large amount of rainwater run to the ocean? Most of these rainwater should be distributed to different parts of California instead.
Because the people who run California are really dumb. They claim they care about the environment but only harm it.
Since California loves to spend Tax Dollars wilynily....I'd really appreciate it if the State created a Department of Permaculture and actually let them do their job. It will save California.
AGREED.
Yes, California definitely needs another government department with a huge budget and no accountability for results. Too little government is definitely the problem.
Californians do pay taxes for this project.
@@typhoonsd9720
Think you missed the point entirely.
@@harsectinal
Take it's what happens when you get people in love with centralized government...
More of this. Will help with groundwater too
It looks as if they're planting inside the concrete trench. No mention of an aquifer beneath the city - to filter and re pump the water out of. Yes, I know what trees do - and it's great to clean out the garbage and re-establish biodiversity, but there was no mention of pumping or saving any of the water that normally runs out to the sea. 🤔
It always makes me laugh when governments try and control the weather by constantly harping the global warming/carbon emissions narrative when they can’t even clean up and restore less than 60 miles of creek (river). Change starts small and in your own home first before you want to control the weather around the world. My hats off to the hard working people who clean up this stretch of river and strive to give it its life back.
A much needed good news story, and such an impressive community initiative. Love what people can achieve when they’re truly passionate about something so important!
The army engineering corp is definitely the hero of it. Redirecting water out of the river and cleaning it maybe but building in it?? Theres a reason why that river is so big.
That’s beautiful. I live in Houston and yeeeeears back we voted to put monies into Buffalo Bayou and it’s now a gem. Any pic you see of our skyline usually has that beautiful park where it’s a skate park, lots of concerts, etc on top of flood help. I think LA would benefit.
I am so happy to see this! I grew up in LA in the 50's, before the creek (I wouldn't call it a river) was cemented over. Used to run around in it with my buds and enjoyed the trees and brush and grasses. Played a lot of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn down there... between Bell and Bell Gardens. Simpler times for sure.
What got me was the fact that 10m gallons of water gets flushed away. Water that can be used for thr city and CA
That’s awesome
Man I wish all the LA river still had all the trees and bushes that you mentioned. Would love to see it in todays LA river
@@miguelvillanueva6542 What the people are doing with the river north of LA is what needs to be done with all of it. It was cemented to reduce the mess/danger created when it flooded. I once was able to dip my hand into the river, over the stub wall on the levee, between Gage Ave and Florence Ave.
@@snuffysmith6058 do you still want to dip your hand in it. Its not a creek. It is a river.
These volunteers are wonderful.
People getting together & making projects happen is the wave of the future. It's far better than complaining for the gov't to do something.
Its great to see local people making a change, governments should do something but in the meantime its great to see the people taking it upon themselves too! It shows they really want it to happen
@@LeafofLifeWorld In a lot of cases the government gets in the way of people with initiative just taking care of things that need to be taken care of. Sure, keep an eye on things because not everyone's ideas are good ideas, but if someone takes it upon themselves to clean, repair, beautify their community, let them and show a little appreciation for their effort.
Thank you for restoring the natural environment.
Wow. Rewilding is amazing
It's gorgeous but they are wasting a ton of water elsewhere.
They definitely can and should do more to harvest the rain waiter
The Muddy River in Boston is an example of this plan (the fens.) First designed by Olmsted in 1880s as fake natural river and flood plain park, part was filled in and put in culverts in 50s, this caused flooding and closing of the D extension of the green line subway every storm. It was dug back up and a large river section an park created, restoring original design. Currently dredging downstream, removal of much of the 18' tall invasive phragmites.
So this rewilding in Boston too, but the original idea and first time tried out was 130 years ago, great and happy being done... But it was innovative in 1890s, wish had been recognized and done everywhere for the last hundred years.
Good to see LA do this. The San Diego River in San Diego is also being restored but it was never made into a concrete channel like this so it is less work. Urban rivers are vital to the local ecosystem.
Thank You for the great work, I am proud for being an LA citizen!!!!!!!
Imagine if they renew their city masterplan for an ecologic print, where they demolish various roads to create canals and green areas all around the metropolitan area of LA
The rain runoff could be used to fill groundwater recharge ponds or even lakes that might dry up over summer. That way, much more of the runoff could be 'channeled' into aquifers and groundwater.
Bioswales do that too. Look up Brad Lancaster.
@@thegiggler2
When many gardens have it, then it is large scale. Brad does rainwater harvestin on small and large scales. The impacts last for years, too.
During the 1930s in the Sonoran Desert the CCC made swales that are fully functional green oases that have also affected the water around them...
Reminds me of the old days of So. CA it was much greener pre 1970s
Great project! I hope every mile of the LA River gets restored.
Major kudos L.A.citizens;great job done for a better environment for humans and the river natural animals and birds.
What was the thought process to pave the river? After diverting water from desert rivers, deciding it was a drought cause there was never enough, then making the river sealed so the water goes straight out and none of it recharges the aquifer?
In the 19th and early 20th century the L.A. river was prone to flooding, causing significant economic damage. In the 1930s the Army Corps of Engineers paved the river to prevent future floodings. This was the one and only goal. Although I'd like to see the restoration of the river, to the credit of the Army Corps, their flood control system has worked for some 80 years.
@@orion7763 We've had flooding well into the late 20th century and we'll have it again. Nothing has really changed. We are in a natural drought state, with intermittent bursts of flooding in some years.
@@orion7763 Working well, no water and everything is on fire. But hey my feets dry.
Also, real estate developers hate the idea of public spaces they can't sell. Recharging the aquifer on a large scale would require a lot more area for soak back basins. These could have been parks but then nobody would have made money selling houses there.
@@thku4grace do you want to see what this river would do right now without concrete. 😑
Shouldn't let the rain water go out to see. Figure out a way to let the water drain into soil which will recharge the aquifer aka ground water.
True. Paving the river was a bad idea.
The amount of people i hear screaming about this stuff, they suggest that the reason for lake mead drying up is somehow this and that "if they just stopped trying to protect the fish the lakes would fill up and california would become successful again"
I went to elementary school in LA. Our "playground" was an asphalt slab the size of a parking lot. It was miserable, and all I would ever want to do is sneak away from our assigned "play areas", to go be in the shade of the trees at the edge of the playground. At one point they decided they would put in new classrooms using mobiles, but the decided to cut down several trees to do it. One of them was the largest of the trees on the grounds, and my friend and I encouraged other kids to not go back to class after recess and instead we sat in a circle around the tree with our arms linked. Eventually someone came looking for us, and one by one they had to physically drag us off the tree, a bunch of bawling 7-9 year olds, begging them not to cut down "Mother Tree". I didn't know then that was my first protest and the poor management of the natural resources at my school had radicalized me. It's never stopped seeming like the right thing to do, and I've always wished we knew how to accomplish our objective and saved those trees. Our whole Earth is in crisis, and until we collectively start to prioritize the right things, we're just going to keep accelerating off this cliff.
Sad story. Poor trees. Terrible education system
Communities coming together to help restore a valuable place and clean up the mess we've made. Beautiful!
It is good to see restoration projects that clean up trash. Be sure you do not plant too much vegitation that could reduce the ability of the system to pass flood flows. I have seen floods into residential areas because creeks were allowed to become clogged by trees.
I love how we say Los Angelease.
Wish i could give more than one thumbs up... Great project, more over in such an urbanized area. I hope it helps
people feel good. City life can be depressing.
It makes sense that in the 1930s they thought channeling water to the ocean to save flooding would work. but now we know better, we need to obsorb and control water where it lands. Although the situation is dire, there is hope. it is not like we have done a lot of work and results are the same. There is a lot of hope for LA to turn into a city that respects in natural environment and conserves water.
Hats off to "Friends of the River" These sort of groups and people give me a lot of hope. I look forward to watching LA change.
Why do so many people not know what a drought is? I'm a 60 year old native Southern Californian and there hasn't been a single real drought in my entire life. Using a word wrongly doesn't make a statement true, it's just a word used wrongly.
It’s a drought… I’m going to go with the actual statistics and meteorologists over an old bat
@@cjthompson420 According to those "statistics and meteorologists", not to mention the politicians, California is ALWAYS in drought. By definition that's not a drought. If you have rain, by definition it's not a drought.
I refer you back to the first sentence of my original post.
@@cjthompson420 😅
This is sooo awesome ! I hope all city’s start looking into ways to get mor water into the ground instead of wasted out to sea ! It’s amazing to see the before and after photos ! BRAVO
I’m a crybaby, so I sobbed in happiness and hope when I saw my beloved L. A. river and all the great restoration work still going on. The shade of trees reduces heat in the area by degrees. The trees also fan the breezes and winds to add to that cooling effect. I would love to see more restoration projects.
Its baffling how much they destroyed in there state.
Use thirsty cement it reduces flooding and increase groundwater and it is made just like normal cement but missing the sand.
Also how haven't they figured out tell now trees help water stay longer and evaporate less.
Wow very interesting stuff! Great video!
Where will you race your cars, if you remove this track? [Gumball Rally, Grease]
Seriously, good effort. All I am reading about recently is the lowering head of water in Lakes Powell and Mead so anything that can save water is great.
Incredible project. It'll make a huge difference. If they can capture more of the stormwater for use in drinking and agriculture, we'll be laughing too 😁
Rainwater harvesting is a huge resource that's being over looked !
@@LeafofLifeWorld for sure, and not just in LA of course. If it runs in to the oceans and isn't at least partly used on its way there, you know you have a problem :D
None of that water is for drinking. This project is for looks only.
amazing
I’ve lived in Los Angeles since 1995. what we really need is another El Niño year of showers!
Bro LA is so massive but there is so much pollution there from all the cars and stuff that it prevents snow from forming in winter on mountain . I live in Phoenix and we went to LA last weekend it so so funn and LA is so beautiful !! We saw the LA river by the Los Angeles zoo by Griffith park it was so beautiful but I knew they can make it more natural water way like it was 1000 years ago
Hi...as a kid I grew up close to the San Gabriel River Bed....noticed I said river bed? There was nary a river running except El Nino years... nonetheless I spent countless hours down there... I knew every place that river held water...life just thrived around those small ponds . Fish frogs lizards and snakes all in my little wilderness in the river bed...we vacationed twice a year in northern California always spied on the little patches of green that the LA River still held on to... always a kid fishing in them. what a treat! When I started the Terrazzo trade there was a Terrazzo shop near Dodger stadium and I talked with guys that remembered the Steelhead runs that stopped in the late 50's... Steelhead in the Los Angeles River...I'd close my eyes and imagine how the river used to be...
The San Gabriel was natural north of me all the way to Duarte no concrete... the concrete started just west of I-5 about 3 miles from Telegraph Rd... Between those two spot was a concrete retaining wall on the low side held water all year long.... anyway...
That's all been taken away...it's great to see Los Angeles embrace the potential it really has....
Bring em back....wild Rainbows swimming up past downtown! Oh the joys!
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school CA
Class of 69, Norwalk High and we called the San Gabriel river the Bamboo Jungle by Alondra Blvd. because of how much grew down there. Where Cerritos College is now was an Artesian stream and spring we'd catch frogs and madtom catfish. Used to take our bikes to Seal Beach when I was 10.
@@MountainFisher Right on! Thanks so much for sharing! That's awesome....we had a bamboo jungle to...north of Telegraph Rd in Pico Rivera and Whittier Narrows....they really we're like little jungles the bamboo would grow high and thick and people cut paths into them ....a little spooky sometimes...✌️
@@MountainFisher right by Florence Ave and I-5 Japanese farmers had a couple acres of strawberries... honest to God some we're as big as a fist! Two or three would fuse together on the vine... remember Cerritos along the 91 was lots of Dairies and farmland! ✌️
@@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 Used to be called Dairy Valley, now is Cerritos or Artesia. I remember the last Japanese strawberry farm on Beach Blvd down south of Knotts Berry Farm. Two acres of farmland right on Beach Blvd. Hwy 39.
@@MountainFisher Wow! I remember that strawberry farm too! We had relatives in Anaheim ...Pop was born in Anaheim in 1918...
In the mid 1980s I was working on South St in Cerritos... remember Ethan Allen Furniture? I worked right next door at The Antique Guild. When my Pop would drive me to work we'd exit off the 605 onto South St every now and then there would be a Golden Eagle sitting on a traffic cone down there in the grass ... between the off ramp and the freeway! Yeah!
You take care out there...good luck fishing... I live less than a mile from The Feather River Fish Hatchery.. big Steelhead in the 70s... Used to spend my Summers in the house I'm in now...Dad bought it from my Aunt when he retired...Printed GTE Yellow Pages for the LA times Telephone Directory plant 37 years in Boyle heights... I-5 was at the end of my block easy commute....wish we never sold that house!✌️
they should do more stuff like this! not only would it be better for the environment at a time when we really need more than ever to get serious about the climate, but it will also be good for people as well.
All houses and buildings should have rain collecting systems, in order to store water in underground cisterns under houses patios or garages, on this way the demand from public water systems will reduce and the monthly bills 💸 and the floods less aggressive
Bioswales can pull water from streets. They can reduce the need for watering and are a lot cheaper to install.
Read up on Brad Lancaster and what he did for Tucson, elsewhere.
Brad started in his back yard first. He did curb cuts, planted mostly native species, harvests greywater, uses cisterns, etc.
When neighbors noticed how well it was working they wanted to know how to do it as well. He launched into helped them. After a few years of working out the bugs he went to the city (along with neighbors calling in) and told them of the benefits. The engineers balked, so he asked about their objections. He won them over. Tucson now legally allows curb cuts, and actively encourages it. They help pay for cisterns, and they have programs to plant native food plants.
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If the cisterns are forced to be underground they'll require pumps, digging, etc. This is a lot of expense in an area that is already expensive.
Curb cuts, etc can help hydrate parched land, reduce costs, regreen places where they have difficulty affording city water. etc. It filters street water and reduces pollution. It reduces heat islands, pavement degradation, crime, beautifies and adds food security.
OMG I get the chills from those computerised voices...
Amazing project!
Thank you, GLaDOS
You should be proud of yourselves you’re efforts help to heal our broken planet
Such an important video!. But who on earth chose the speaker?. And who did the audio?.
Maybe check our community posts if you want to learn more about who is behind the channel
Great work...keep it up 👍👍
Concert river-beds lead to no need for concrete river-beds. The old saying, "A day late and a dollar short", applies here.
8 States? NO, you mean 8 COUNTIES where the watershed is pulled from. The only states where water is pulled is from Nevada/Arizona through the Colorado River and within California itself.
So which 8 counties?
Very nice hope it stay like that four miles not bad
Sounds like a great project and wish it luck
Thank you 🙏 please telling is better than reading 📖☝️😎still great title video 👏👏👏👏👏
Outstanding . Thanks.
I worked for the Army Corps of engineers taking care of the LA River removing debree and trash to make the river be as beautiful and full of life. Alot of homeless and graffiti destroying this eco system. Best job I ever had worked in the hot sun but it was a good feeling k owing I did something for my City.
I am really into this subject and wanted to watch the entire video but the VOICE...whether it is computerized or just someone bereft of any emotion with a completely flat affect...is absolutely killing me. I feel I'm stuck in the tube and London is experiencing the apocalypse. "The Underground is the only safe space, mind the gap, thank you and try not to die."
I though I was the only one, it drove me crazy
@@laom20 SAAAAAAME Also kinda weird not more people are on about this. Literally had to ctrl+f to find this comment.
And our river is beautiful today. A huge difference from when I grew up here.
Rain water harvesting would be a good idea ☔
but, one needs rain...
I’m in complete shock they haven’t been storing rainwater forever….
You know where you live, had a drought and you just kept running the rainwater back to the ocean…glad to see changes happening for you all
I've actually road on the bike trail through some of these before. Pretty cool
Fantastic project.
Fascinating!!
The knock on effects of community engagement is incalculable.
Comme quoi rien n’est irréversible. Belle initiative, bravo aux bénévoles.
great video
Whatt as an Atlantan native I love the green and nature I'm so happy to see this happen for nature.
I remember the visits to LA and the storm water systems in place. My thoughts at the time were clear, I thought they looked horrible, massive concrete drains are certainly not a nice look and happy to hear there is some restoration work in progress on the river.
Keep it going!
Impressive I wish my town Bangkok would have this kind of program soon
Me too!
The main problem are the massive flooding from heavy winter and early spring storms occurring during el nino winters.
ya even tho it doesn’t rain often here when it does it’s heavy
Doing things the right way, going back to nature will help us save our water, land, and air.
Things we all need.
So, Terminators have nowhere to race motorcycles now....
as a mexican got's my pickaxe, shovel, cart and a 6 of modelo ready to brake concrete and rehydrate, whos down lol
If ANYONE is serious about the effects of climate change, they would promote 3 solutions to adapt and reduce CO2.
1) water security to reduce the impacts of droughts. The higher on the contour water is stored the more efficiently it can be used.
2) flood mitigation. Part of the solution is also to store water high on the contour. With plenty of "air space" to catch high short term run-off. And release it over an extended time to not overwhelm drainage systems. etc.
3) nuclear power to replace fossil fuel power stations. Modular nuclear reactors could be built alongside existing power stations nearing decommissioning.
Part of the exorbitant cost of nuclear power is over the top safety precautions.
No other forms of power generation comes near to nuclear poweres minimal toxic by products and tiny carbon footprint.
Yes we need to restore the river and also capture water during storms and pump it into the ground to replenish groundwater. The river also provides green spaces for people and animals and naturally provides cooler air flow to the surrounding neighborhoods.
They paved a fookin river!
Yes plz!! We need this!
Glados made a new video
As a retired Landscape Architect, I have seen first hand how nature can recover from over urbanization if given a little help from us. Defining problems and discovering solutions is first step. Then, with everyone on same page, it's time for volunteers to get their hands dirty.
Corporate sponsor can be a big help. Some will donate money, others equipment with operators. Reclaiming an old watershed is a long term project. Storm water needs to be stored and not allowed to be wasted in ocean. New natural lakes can be created for water storage. This can also help recharge the aquifer.
Birds and wildlife will return if natural habitats are created for them. All of this helps nature recover from a century of neglect. A portion of LA river can be moved underground for flood control and directed to ocean. Area where concrete once was can be greened up into parks and open natural areas.
Really cool
One of the saddest thing I’ve heard is how big people that live in LA could care less about the environment and only care about making more housing projects on beautiful parks and wild areas that really do not need more people.
That’s correct LA is destroying already 300 year old public park tree’s and areas for really nasty tall apartments. We can’t have more people there. If anything those big investors should be building those things in their own backyards.. such giant jerks in our world right now.
Very Very good!!!!!
Absolutely inspiring